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Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2016
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sudha Anil Kumar Gathala, Tracy, CA (US);

Rajarshi Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Nayeem Islam, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/52 (2013.01); G06F 21/552 (2013.01); G06F 21/566 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments include methods for detecting software attacks on a process executing on a computing device. Various embodiment methods may include monitoring structural attributes of a plurality of virtual memory regions utilized by the process, and comparing the monitored structural attributes to the expected structural attributes of the plurality of VMRs. Various embodiment methods may further include determining whether the monitored structural attributes represent anomalous behavior of the process based on the comparison between the monitored structural attributes and the expected structural attributes.


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